teaching resource

Kindergarten Counting 1-20 Matching Game

Updated: 23 Jun 2025

Use this matching game in your primary classroom to teach students to count quantities and match them to numbers (1-20).

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 8 Pages
Grade: K

Curriculum

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.1

Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.2

Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.3

Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4

Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4.A

When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4.B

Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5

Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.NBT.A.1

Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (such as 18 = 10 + 8); understand that these numbers are compos...

teaching resource

Kindergarten Counting 1-20 Matching Game

Updated: 23 Jun 2025

Use this matching game in your primary classroom to teach students to count quantities and match them to numbers (1-20).

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 8 Pages
Grade: K

Use this matching game in your primary classroom to teach students to count quantities and match them to numbers (1-20).

Kindergarten Counting – Make a Match!

This garden-themed matching card game requires students to count the number of flowers on the card and match it up with the card displaying the equivalent numerical representation. The activity explores numbers and quantities from 1-20.

This 7-page resource download includes 36 game cards and an instruction sheet.

To prepare this game for your math centers, a whole-class game or for student pairs, print and cut apart the cards. Shuffle them and place them on the table facing up.

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding

A team of dedicated, experienced educators created this resource to support your math lessons.

If you have a mixture of above and below-level learners, check out these suggestions for keeping students on track with the concepts:

🆘 Support Struggling Students

Help students who need help understanding the concepts by providing physical manipulatives for them to count, and help them visualize the increasing quantity per number counted. Alternatively, use a number line or hundreds board to show the quantities and intervals of one.

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

Scale the intervals! Students working above level will enjoy the challenge of having each flower represent a different value (for example, 2 instead of 1), and practice their skip counting!

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PDF or Google Slides version of this resource.

This resource was created by Cassandra Friesen, a teacher in Colorado and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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Curriculum

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.1

Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.2

Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.3

Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4

Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4.A

When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4.B

Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5

Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.NBT.A.1

Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (such as 18 = 10 + 8); understand that these numbers are compos...

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